The weather here in Louisville both yesterday and today was conducive to spray painting outside so I took the opportunity to paint the retaining wall segments. I was using Rustoleum sand paint beige and the coverage was terrible, both in hiding ability and in the amount of paint it took to do 10 square feet of surface area. I ran through 3.5 cans of paint and it could use another coat. The paint cost way more than the hardboard did.
It all has to be weathered. The screw blocks are already fastened to one side of each segment and the holes in both the wall and the backing blocks are pre-drilled and threaded for the other screws. I will have to hide those screw heads. I'm going to glue the pieces to the elevated sub roadbed with a couple of screws to hold it all until it dries. There is enough room between the sub roadbed and the cellar wall to get clamps behind it to secure the retaining wall for gluing.
While this was drying I started piping the boiler installation. I realize the I didn't order enough of certain components. I may have to resin cast some to finish the job. I was working on temporarily sticking the feed water tank to the mock up base and dropped it. I instinctively clomped my legs together to catch it before it hit the floor and almost crushed the entire assembly. I broke of one set of legs and fractured the glue joints holding the uprights to their bases. DOH!
I wish the vessels were a little smaller of the space was a little bigger since the piping is a challenge, but I will make it work. The pipe you see is the blow down piping from the boiler's bottom to the feed water tank. There will be another line coming in from the condensate return tank and then a line leading out of the FW tank to the boiler tops for feed water. Holes for the steam line are already drilled in the top of the boilers. I still have to design and install some kind of burner details, and build the flue lines coming out the top boiler front. This is a single return scotch type boiler design so the flue exit from the front of the boiler. I didn't buy any Plastruct valves for the T4 sized piping. I did buy a good selection for the larger steam line. I think I'll buy some more T4 parts. They'll arrive in time for me to be productive.
